I am used to bottling my beer and do bottle conditioning. However, I just bought a few 5l mini kegs for the next batch which is currently fermenting. From what I have read from different sources, you ...

I have a question regarding the conversion from Plato degrees to specific gravity, and the widely used value of 46ppg for sugar dissolved in water.
According to wikipedia, plato degrees are defined ...

I'm planning on brewing a double batch of "OktoberFAST" this weekend.
I've used a few online brewing calculators and they seem to be giving me the wrong answer.
I've always read that if more then 50% ...

How would one calculate the ABV of a beer if distilled spirits were added? For instance, when making a beer recipe that called for adding bourbon as a flavoring agent. If you started with, say, 5 US ...

I've seen some tables online like the ones at American Homebrewers Association and Brewhaus Canada that list Potential ABV for different values of Original Gravity. My intuition tells me that these ...

I am planning on brewing a herb beer; Rooibos Honey Ale.
Question one is: How can I estimate (ball park) the amount of herbs to use prior to brewing the beer?
Should I make a tea and then calculate ...

I've been searching around the net, asking in forums, even writing to Weyermann, trying to figure out what is the correct formula -- using a malt spec sheet -- to calculate the ppg value that I can ...

I've prepared a 1qt (~1L) yeast starter according to instructions from Wyeast.com. I didn't measure its gravity, but in theory it should be about 1.040.
I am brewing a 5 gallon batch of high gravity ...

In the book "Home Beermaking", by William Moore, it talks about calculating starting and finishing gravity in chapter 6. I believe that he's talking about when I get good enough at homebrewing to make ...

Some sites calculate bitterness vs sweetness on a scale of sorts, where one side is "malty sweet", and the other side is "hoppy bitter" (ex. hopville).
My question is, to do a very basic calculation ...

Please tell me if I'm being overly simplistic here.
I was reading the book yeast by Chris White and Jamil Zainasheff. In the book, they talk about measuring how many cells are in a slurry by using a ...

Promash doesn't support late addition of extracts (which affects hop extraction). Either that, or I can't find out how to do it.
I sometimes use beercalculus.hopville.com to create two recipes, one ...

I'm an AG brewer but I haven't done an extract batch in years (or an AG one in over a year) and want to do an extract IPA this week. Looking at the various software and calculators, they don't seem to ...

I want to make a yeast starter for a lager. I even went out and got a 3000 ml Erlenmyer Flask. According to mrmalty.com's calculator I need 506 Billion cells. With the two vials of White Labs yeast ...

Does anyone know of a solid application for pre-planning your homebrews? I have a really tight schedule, and determining when to start a batch can be a real hairball. There are lots of variables and ...

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